A. Batov wrote: PP: > I guess the old makers used straight necks and put the relief into the > frets.
Wouldn't it be as an odd sort of practice on the first rather tiny T-shape frets? Early metal frets were so called bar-frets, this type used by everyone. Panormo stuck to bar frets for quite some time, C.F. Martin even used them into the 1930's. In France the T-fret appeared around 1820. BTW, I believe that some ideas expressed by Sor in the chapter "The Instrument" are based on his early experiences with guitars and are not quite up to date (1830). Some comments about the "direction of the neck" seem to refer to saddleless instruments. PP -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
